But there’s still one area of the world Uber needs to work on before it can truly achieve international status.

Last December, Uber raised a massive $US1.2 billion round of funding. It was intended to allow Uber to “make significant investments, particularly in the Asia Pacific region.”

Earlier this year, BuzzFeed News reported that Softbank Capital, which has funded on-demand ride-hailing startups GrabTaxi and OlaCabs, was behind a global alliance to take on Uber.

Since then, two other huge Asian taxi-hailing companies — Kuaidi Dache, which is funded by Alibaba, and Didi Dache, funded by Tencent — have merged, consolidating the power of Asia-based car-hailing companies.

And though Uber operates in a number of Asian markets, including Beijing, Bangkok, and Tokyo, Uber has faced other legal hurdles in Asia.

Uber certainly already has a leg up on its US rivals: Lyft, perhaps its closest competitor, hasn’t even expanded outside the States yet. But if Uber wants to achieve global expansion, it needs to work within the legal regulations in the Asia Pacific area as well as work to make its Indian customers happy.

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